The articles listed and linked above are also linked in their
appropriate sections of our website.

From the Editor

First, another apology and our thanks for putting up with yet another
delayed issue. This time, a little bit of real life got in the way; the
editor has been temporarily reassigned at his day job, and even though
he has slightly more time in the evenings to work on the magazine, the
demands of the new assignment have meant that he gets fewer—and
shorter—breaks during the day when he can work on it.

Second: We’re
committed—Freelance Traveller will be at TravellerCON/USA in Lancaster,
PA, the weekend of October 15 16 17, 2010. We’re looking forward to
meeting some of our fans there—and some of the vendors whose products
we’re fans of. Come join the fun!

Third, more thanks—as usual, the
community has been coming through with good material, well-written, for
us to put into Freelance Traveller. Thirty-two pages this month makes
this one of the largest issues—if not the largest—so far published. Once
again, that says a lot about the Traveller community.

Fourth… We’ve
got so many projects “on the back burner” that we’ve decided that we
need some technical help for what should be one of the smaller projects.
To that end, we’re asking that anyone who can (and is willing to) help
us design a database, and anyone that can (and is willing to) write PHP
code to query a database, please contact us at tech@freelancetraveller.com.

Finally… Cover art. This has actually been the hardest thing to come by
for us, and this month, we’ve resorted to one of NASA’s Astronomy
Pictures of the Day (we chose one that we know has no rights issues
based on NASA’s own policies). We know that our previous cover artists
have set a high standard, but that’s no reason to concede the field to
them—try your hand at doing some Traveller art; you may be surprised at
just how well you can do if you make the effort without letting your
self-comparison to others get in the way...